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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jung convey the depth and truth of his experiences in travel?

2. Where did Jung build his house?

3. When Jung discusses the towers he added to his house, what is he careful to say they are not?

4. What warning does Jung give the reader in his discussion of life after death?

5. What did Jung find when his wife died, and his children were all grown up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Krater and what significance does Jung attribute to it?

2. What influence did Jung say colonizers had on the colonized?

3. What is Jung's feeling about the Christian church?

4. How do the Hindu or Buddhist ideas of reincarnation affect Jung?

5. Why did Jung find alchemy so interesting?

6. What does Jung say about moral judgments?

7. Where did Jung travel to in order to research his philosophy of psychology?

8. How did Jung confront his father's thinking as he grew older?

9. Where does Jung say giants come from?

10. How does Jung couch his comments on an afterlife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Jung see Christianity, now that he has explored his unconscious? Did his early ideas stand up to his experience, and turn into his mature views, or did they change under pressure from overwhelming experiences?

Essay Topic 2

Jung attributes some degree of eternality to his childhood experiences, and he theorizes the collective unconscious as a wellspring of human experience. What role is left for the individual to play? Is the daimon the figure who determines the individual's fate, or is it the individual who chooses his or her fate?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Jung's decision to study medicine. What parts of his childhood led him to this decision? What parts of his childhood was he turning away from in this decision?

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